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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Crispy& Crunchy Chicken



Although it contains parmesan cheese,  it  might seem like a Cajum dish.

Ingredients: A whole chicken but deprived of the chest (that you will cook later for another dinner ), 60g of breadcrumbs, 40g of grated cheese (Grana Padano or Parmigiano-Reggiano), little olive oil, salt and pepper. 

Here I added quantities, but I just did by eye.

Preheat oven to 150°C (short less if the oven is vented).
Mix breadcrumbs with grated cheese and pepper.

Preheat oven to 150°C (short less if the oven is vented).
Mix breadcrumbs with grated cheese and pepper.

Cut chicken into small pieces.
Broke wings into 2 pieces each as well as the above-thighs, but let whole thighs. If you have time and it is possible, remove skin.
Then, with hands or a brush, grease with olive oil every chicken piece. Bread them in the breadcrumbs mixture.

Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Everything is ready, it's grape-harvest time!


We are just in grape harvest time, a period that, this year, will be long if the weather holds.

In fact this year in Tuscany  Sangiovese grapes are not yet  arrived all at full maturity.

Not so for the Chianti Vepri.
So they will probably harvest by the end of this week: everything is ready.

Last Saturday I was right there with my sister,  to visit Siro Cicogni, owner of the Vepri Vineyards.